#i love prehistoric animals !!

[omicheese]

i think the thing that always strikes me so weird about artistic reconstructions of therapsids and creatures like that is that they have no external ears. i'm sure the artists know what they're about and there just were no such things as external ears back then, but it definitely feels weird and otherworldly to see pictures like that.

[druid-for-hire]

[image id: a four-page comic. it is titled "immortality” after the poem by clare harner (more popularly known as “do not stand at my grave and weep”). the first page shows paleontologists digging up fossils at a dig. it reads, “do not stand at my grave and weep. i am not there. i do not sleep.” page two features several prehistoric creatures living in the wild. not featured but notable, each have modern descendants: horses, cetaceans, horsetail plants, and crocodilians. it reads, “i am a thousand winds that blow. i am the diamond glints on snow. i am the sunlight on ripened grain. i am the gentle autumn rain.” the third page shows archaeopteryx in the treetops and the skies, then a modern museum-goer reading the placard on a fossil display. it reads, “when you awaken in the morning’s hush, i am the swift uplifting rush, of quiet birds in circled flight. i am the soft stars that shine at night. do not stand at my grave and cry.” the fourth page shows a chicken in a field. it reads, “i am not there. i did not die” / end id]

a comic i made in about 15 hours for my school’s comic anthology. the theme was “evolution”

[trisarahtops-sketches]

A message from the past. 🐚

[prolibytherium]

Would kill to read animal POV fiction that has the animal POV’s interaction with humans be like, semi realistic to the level of caution most predators take with large prey and/or competitors (including humans).

Like instead of the usual - “the human is such a weak, pathetic creature... so slow, no claws, blunt teeth… completely helpless without its 'Fire Sticks'. how is it the master of the earth?” type crap it’s like, the bear protagonist or whatever approaches some dude who spreads their arms and yells and the bear is like “FUUUUUUUUCK THAT THING JUST GOT HUGE. IT'S LARGE AND MAKING NOISES. HOLY FUCK.”

[opabiniasarecool]

Please take care of yourself, somehow it has to be okay. Light is at the end of the tunnel, even if the tunnel is really long. I love you guys, stay okay and stay alive <3

(also please stop doom scrolling, take a break, get some water and a snack, spend time outside, just stop doomscrolling)

Cross posted from my pintrest

[crimsawnics]

daspletosaurus :o

[fgfirenation]

These days people rarely info dump me about their favorite prehistoric creatures and even more rarely ask me about what are mine.

WELL, GUESS WHAT!

You can info dump or gush about your favorite prehistoric creature here. ( Be it from the Devonian, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, Paleogene periods or others )

I really wanna see people get overjoyed, because somebody asked them about their favorite dinosaur, pterosaur ( which are cousins of the dinosaurs, but not true dinosaurs- ), ancient marine reptile ( which are style cousins of the dinosaurs, but not true dinosaurs- ) etc.

Release free your inner child and babble about your favorite prehistoric animals!

[otavinhoartes]

A huge and hungry acrocanthosaurus eating a baby titanosaurid sauropod (sorry if this is too gore 😔)

[thetoxiccupcakes]

Let's pause for a moment and think about dinosaurs 🤔🦕🦖

[dilfsuzanneyk]

hc that sometimes robin gets really bored so alison entertains him by sitting him in front of the tv and turning on animal planet or the history channel or something. robin ends up sitting there watching every programme that comes on for about six hours and his next talk for pat’s club is about endangered sharks

[silvermoon424]

*makes feral excited noises*

[earlgreytiefling]

literally every problem the ppl running Jurassic park had would have been avoided if Nigel Marven from prehistoric park had been in charge. a stellar example of what a park housing long-extinct animals SHOULD be like

[milkywaysvoyager]

I'm going to compile a bunch of news stuff on a post twice a week (I'm thinking Wednesday and Friday, or Tuesday and Saturday?) Like, so that I actually have things to post, it will probably revolve mostly around dinosaurs, but yous can also send asks and ill reply to them, please for the love of God engage, I need content, I yearn for it.

Also maybe some book stuff, movie stuff, music stuff ykykyk

[frontallobotomy03]

my April fools joke is that I will post a drawing today

[catboy-cyrus]

SPEAR TOOTH

Water/Dark -- The Paradox Pokémon

This Pokémon resembles a sea monster of legend, said to eat ships. An old book describes it as Spear Tooth.

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Tried my hand at designing a Paradox Pokemon! I'm fascinated by ancient animals and whales were the perfect thing to create a Paradox pokemon based on. This one is based heavily on Dorudon, hence the name. It'd be the only Scarlet pokemon smaller than its modern form, but whales have literally only gotten bigger so it works. I was going to base this on Kutchicetus but it was much harder to make it read as a Wailord relative, and I struggled even here.